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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree that Anandtech serves a niche market, but I feel like most other review sites kind of serve the same niche, but more poorly. What I mean is that a gadget reviewer's experience is so far different from a normal consumer's as to be al
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I have never encountered racism, therefore there is no racism. And anyone who thinks they're being discriminated against is a lazy whiner.
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That's still deception. Seems obvious to me that the reason search engines would penalize sites that put up real data behind firewalls is because users don't want to see them in their search results. To show search engines different data
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's also what makes the OS-level back button so important, which full-time iOS users seem not to understand when they cursorily try an Android phone. ( http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/31/android-hardware ) I agree with this thread
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The point that Winer was making was that Kottke once stood up for him (Winer) in the face of bullies, and here, he seems to be joining in the bullying instead. I suppose Gruber is just a small, mean-spirited bully of whom Winer has no speci
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I totally disagree. The old social functions were totally opaque, irrational, and hard to control. The new system allows you to share with select groups, or publicly, in a very granular way. Just because you got used to an old, broken way o
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's crazy to me the amount of grousing about the Google Reader cheese-moving. The old system was an opaque, user-antagonistic, hacked-on mess. The new system (integration with +) is rational and a superset of the old system, as far as I ca
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Sprint says iPhone is 50% more network efficient than Android(bgr.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Seems to me that the medium is different enough that you'd generally want games specifically developed for the TV, rather than a straight port of a phone game, anyway.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The interesting thing Disqus brings to the table IMO is a persistent identity across sites. And, broadly, I think this is good in that it fights the inherent hierarchical structure of any commenting system. Ultimately, though, the concept o
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's available in system settings: http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/20/bloatware-kill-switch-ice...
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by joebadmo 15y ago
1. Anyone who cares about OS updates would only have ever owned three or four of the phones on the chart. 2. Anyone who cares about OS updates doesn't keep a phone for longer than 2 years. Most spring for an early upgrade after 1.5. Many (l
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Why You Should Wait for the iPhone 5(datamation.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This doesn't change the fact that she has to talk out loud. I don't like to take personal calls at work, either. I usually go out into the hall or somewhere more private. I don't think this is rare behavior.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's definitely another issue too. My wife has specifically said that she doesn't like to do that, even in semi-private (e.g. work), because she doesn't necessarily want to say stuff about her private schedule out loud, or broadcast her n
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm skeptical about Siri. My wife got an iPhone 4S on opening weekend, and we both did the requisite amount of playing with the new feature, and it was amusing, but after the first couple of days she pretty much abandoned it. There are some
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"Google admits really large, high res photo could feasibly unlock phone"(techradar.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I know individual apps can sort of do what I'm describing. What I'd like is to be able to is leave video running while doing other things on the iPad. Right now, if I'm playing a youtube video, when I leave the app to tweet or queue up anot
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm not sure I agree about the necessity of building this into a tv. I have an ATV2, and the TV just stays on that input, generally. This would be more true if there were more content apps. Also, my TV goes to sleep when the ATV does. So I
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's complicated, though. I think there's probably at least a bit of selection bias at work. There are plenty of cyclists who take traffic laws as seriously as drivers. But you're not going to notice them as much. And, here, in Portland, it
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm a daily bike commuter and I would love to see a Netherlands-like biking network in the US, but it's hard for me to imagine anywhere that's not as flat as most of the Netherlands. I could see it here in Portland or maybe Philly, but I do
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think it's partly a failure of designers to communicate what they can do. I do understand how hard this can be; my wife is a product designer, sometimes for tech products. As I said before, I'm hopeful about both Microsoft and Google. The
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Gen X is sick of your bullshit(m.gizmodo.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Agreed. Nexus Galaxy is just as bad, imo. When all the rumored names were flying around, I suspected this would be it, but I was hoping it would be some sort of dual release, with Google selling the 'Nexus Prime' directly, and Samsung relea
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It does seem like instead of taking lessons about understanding the value of design and design process, manufacterers have latched onto whatever aesthetic Apple has gone to recently. Just look at the latest crop of MacBook Air knock-offs. I
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Can't really disagree with this. After using my wife's iPhone 4S, my Droid X always feels like something less than direct manipulation. [Edit: And to be fair, my wife's old 3GS and her 3G before that were always more responsive to touches t
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I wish a real competitor would have emerged earlier, honestly, if only to get the Google Reader team to do something interesting. The truth is that Reader has been the de facto standard, but ugly, clunky, and with a somewhat random and rand
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Steve Jobs: "Picasso had a saying, 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The thing that really stands out to me about ICS is the focus on user experience. Duarte seems to have addressed all the little complaints I've always had, and some I never realized I had. * Moving away from long-presses. * More consistent
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Try hitting ? for keyboard shortcuts.

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